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49,733. The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder. (Democracy & Market & Commodity & Crisis) Arundhati Roy
127,406. Everything is about humanity begin a commodity. Ian R Crane, lecture ‘Can You Feel the Winds of Change?’ Alternative View 8 conference 2017
41,606. Gold is inconvenient ... Why any single commodity? ... It makes the value of money exclusively dependant on the quantity of that one commodity. (Money & Banksters & Debt & Economics & Federal Reserve & Gold & Commodities) Paul Grignon, Money as Debt III: Evolution Beyond Money
41,977. If however a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the reach, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer. (Banksters & Money & Commodities) John Maynard Keynes
42,205. The fundamental business of the country – that is production and distribution of commodities – is on a sound and prosperous basis. (Business & Commodities) Herbert Hoover
69,336. We are commodities brokers, William. Now what are commodities? Commodities are agricultural products. Like coffee that you had for breakfast. Wheat which is used to make bread. Pork bellies which is used to make bacon. Which you may find in a bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich. And then there are other commodities like frozen orange juice and gold. Though of course gold doesn’t grow on trees like orange juice. Trading Places 1983 starring Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy & Jamie Lee Curtis & Denholm Elliott & Ralph Belamy & Don Ameche & Paul Gleason & Kristin Holby & Frank Oz et al, director John Landis
69,337. The most valuable commodity of the twenty-first century. (Data & Commodity) Horizon – The Age of Big Data, BBC 2013
95,571. Western access to commodities like coltan depended on the offices of organised-crime groups working throughout southern and western Africa. (Africa Commodity) Misha Glenny, McMafia